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🌶️ SNEAKY DROP! EP 5 of the CALL HER SPICY SHOW is here!

This time I sit down with the brilliant Prof. Romy Parker, one of South Africa’s leading voices in chronic pain management, to unpack the deeply complex relationship between chronic pain, mental health and the nervous system.

A conversation VERY close to my heart after 15 years of navigating chronic illness myself.

And on a slightly different note, my perfectionism is driving me absolutely batty! 🙃

But here’s the thing. Part of sharing this journey of building the Call Her Spicy movement and show is about challenging my OWN hardwiring.

Showing up imperfectly. Getting comfortable with being uncomfortable. Letting go of the need to have everything perfectly polished before putting it out into the world.
Because how can I advocate for radical resilience and unbreakable self-trust if I’m not willing to practise what I preach?

So here we are. Learning, unlearning and showing up anyway.

Progress over perfection, baby. 🌶️❤️

🎙️Full episode dropping on YouTube as soon as I can sort out this sound! 🤪

#Chronicpain #MentalHealth #Resilience #BiteMe by @iammissashton

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The obsession for exploring new spaces and places runs deep 🔥 by @iammissashton

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Euphoria ❤️‍🔥 taken in Cape Town, South Africa by @iammissashton

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Finding small moments to connect while carrying a heavy heart. by @iammissashton

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I was SO excited to shoot Episode 5 of the Call Her Spicy Show in our new location this week.

I’d finally managed to lock in a professor who genuinely changed my life and how I relate to chronic pain over a decade ago.

Prepped, headed downtown Cape Town (a different beast when it comes to parking), got lost and then 15 mins before filming the studio called to say our space had been double booked and could we shoot somewhere else.

My guest was stuck in traffic. Mild panic setting in.

Eventually we arrived, set up the lighting, checked my lippie and sat down to have a profoundly important conversation.

Meanwhile… jackhammers in a nearby office. Chatty Cathys in the shared kitchen. My neurospiciness was at FULL capacity.

I’d spent ages preparing an extensive list of questions because I know how invaluable this knowledge is for anyone living with chronic pain, like myself.

Didn’t use a single one.

We wrapped. I got back into my car and sat there for a few minutes taking some deep breaths.

Opened WhatsApp.

My dearest friend Andrew had passed away.

And just like that, everything stopped.

Adaptability may be my middle name but nothing, absolutely f**king nothing, prepares you for losing someone you love.

Today we lost another enormous-hearted man and I’m completely heartbroken.

And somewhere underneath this grief there is also rage.

How much more heartbreak do we have to endure before we change the systems that are failing people?

How many more people do we have to lose before we challenge the status quo and create more nuanced support for the humans we love?

Right now I need to grieve my beautiful friend Andrew.

But when I come up for air, I’ll be taking my life and this work up a f**king notch.

Some things just change you.

This is one of them.

My heart is with Andrew’s family during this devastating time 💔

#grief #neurospicy #resillience by @iammissashton

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“What do you like to do for fun?”

Them: Sun salutations, half naked on Saunders, in front of the Prom Weekend Trotters.

Me: Accepting a last-minute invite to be a croupier at a vintage-inspired roulette event.

When I say I wear many hats, I mean it both literally and figuratively. 🎩🎰

#wheresafocuspullerwhenyouneedone #CallHerSpicy by @iammissashton

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TIME STAMP: “Let’s do it in the LIVE setting so we can find an angle where we don’t look middle-aged, perimenopausal, can’t find our mouth filter… nor, apparently, my memory.” 😂 by @iammissashton

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Emitting signals 24/7 ❤️‍🔥 taken in Hout Bay, Western Cape, South Africa by @iammissashton

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🎙️This is a reshare of a conversation I had with @sivngesi a few months ago where we touched on GBV in South Africa. This clip is not an opinion on the recent atrocities that have unfolded over the last week.

Nine women. Nine lives.

In light of the devastating discovery of nine murdered women in Ekurhuleni, I’m resharing this conversation with @sivngesi from The Call Her Spicy Show.

This one is personal.

From my own lived experience, it feels like almost every woman I’ve known has a story. Violence. Abuse. Coercion. Sexual violence. Fear.

And we are fucking angry.

569 women were murdered and 9,201 rapes reported in South Africa in just three months this year.

So what do we do with the rage?

We channel it.

Into speaking up.
Calling shit out.
Educating our sons.
Holding perpetrators accountable.
Supporting survivors.
Demanding better policing, legislation and protection.
And refusing to normalise what should NEVER have been normal.

Women should not have to become smaller, quieter or more careful to stay alive.

Our rage is information. Let’s turn it into change.

#domesticviolence #gbv #genderbasedviolence #callherspicy by @iammissashton

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🌶️Ooh lala! Woke up to a delivery of the 𝘾𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙃𝙚𝙧 𝙎𝙥𝙞𝙘𝙮 PJs from the lovely @theirnibs team 🔥

Thank you, darlings ❤️‍🔥 by @iammissashton

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MAMA for a day filming for @soliver with the wonderful @ladybirdfilms.sa 🌊🌅🐬🇩🇪 by @iammissashton

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